Dear James,
We have been at war against Covid 19 since January 2020 and the war is far from over. Yet Boris is announcing victory or ‘Freedom Day’ on July 19th. On that day, England will throw off its mandatory requirement to wear face masks in shops and public transport and enter the medical version of those glorious, Brexit, ‘sunlit uplands’. Boris is hungry for immortality, eager to cry ‘victory’. And he pretends fear of no one, not least the virus.
If this were that other kind of war, the Day of Freedom would be like Churchill declaring victory in WW2 on June 7th 1944.
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